Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Hardiman accepts that the service is inadequate. He also said that it would be "dishonest", to use his word, to claim that the cyberattack and the impact of Covid-19 are the main drivers of a worsening situation. While he accepted that those events would have had an impact on longer waiting times, he said that the problems predate the onset of Covid-19 and the cyberattack. Yet Ms Hardiman, in her opening statement, mentioned on three occasions the impact of the cyberattack and Covid-19.

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